La Rochelle. Basket. NM1: the pass of five at home against Toulouse
Through Corentin Cousin
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La Rochelle received 5 out of 5 after Victoire on wires parquet of the Gaston Neveur room against the Toulouse basketball club, 74-69, in a face-to-face meeting that will have kept all its promises.
And the Rochelais go on a 4e consecutive victory, a clear round since the start of the second leg and a 5e unbeaten game at home.
Stade Rochelais against Rupella
A good warm-up for the Rochelais who enter in full irons in their match. More skilful and better established during its first minutes, the Maritimes try to widen a gap after 5 minutes of play. 12-5.
Especially since the Stade Rochelais Basket plays almost against an old school team of Rupella with known faces on the side of Toulouse like Faycal Sahraoui, Ron Anderson and Olivier Yao Delon. A Toulouse team which seems to opt for a game identical to the Rochelais.
But at the 7e minute, the strong interior of the coach François Sence, Ruphin Kayembe, comes out with an injury, touched in the ankle, it seems, on a bad reception. “Ruphin injured his Achilles tendon, said the coach at the end of the match, his season is over.”
A fact of the match which puts the visitors back in the lead and which therefore comes back to the table. 17-15 at the end of this first quarter.
The two teams came in for one stroke in a relatively balanced encounter where each scored their highlights resulting in a tight score, 29-22. Both La Rochelle and Toulouse are struggling on the second chance balloons.
The premises rely on a defense in place and solid to register only 12 additional points in the TBC and go to the locker room with only 2 small points in advance, 29-27.
Do not break
Toulouse returned from the break with beating drums and took control of the meeting for the first time, 29-31. The Rochelais are struggling with a Thibaut Lonzième who works on an original position to compensate for the exit of Ruphin in an interior sector where François Sence must manage the faults of Vanly Meité, already 3 at the break.
And Toulouse are well aware that under the circle, La Rochelle was in difficulty and therefore insisted in this sector of play. Consequently, Rupella dropped a few lengths behind.
If La Rochelle bends, it does not break and relies on its captain Arnaud Thinon at 3 points not to be relegated to the table. 43-47. It’s who’s going to crack first in a high-tension match.
And as a symbol, it is thanks to Norville Carey, stratospheric this evening, and an outside shoot from Gaétan Clerc that La Rochelle takes over the reins, 54-51.
At the start of this last period, Stade Rochelais Basket regains color and takes off with a 10-point lead. In delicacy on their shots on the periphery, the TBC tries to outline a comeback, in vain. 66-56 at the entrance of the money time.
After a little fright 2 minutes from time, that Toulouse had returned to -4, the Rochelais then won 75-69. A success which confirms the good form of the Maritimes continue for lack of their block of 3 games at home on a sans sans serif before the reception of the neighbors from Poitevin.
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